Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Wealth

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Defoe, Daniel

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

Daniel Akst

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Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

12.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

14.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

15.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

16.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]

Bible

17.

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

Astor, John Jacob

18.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

19.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

20.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Young, Andrew

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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverb, Spanish

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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Channing, William Henry

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

Butler, Samuel

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

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He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wirt, W.

35.

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Mizner, Wilson

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A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Didion, Joan

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Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

40.

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

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I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

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The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Budgell, Eustace

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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Young, Andrew

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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

48.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Rockefeller, John D.

49.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.